The co-founder of what might just be “the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn” is setting up shop in the East Village. Ben Pope, former executive…
One More Place to Get Your Fingers Wet and Develop Some Film
Thanks to a generous donation from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a super cool landlord in Gowanus who’s trying to keep the neighborhood…
Week in Film: Ryan Gosling Tries to Direct and Punks in Escobar-Era Colombia
Welcome back to another week of exciting film picks by us. Again, you ask? Yes, again. Relentless? Perhaps. Hint: it will never end. So get…
An Online Farmers Market Grows in Brooklyn, and Wants to Deliver to Your Hood
If the nightmare-ish appearance of Soylent in the real world (as opposed to in dystopian cannibal-populated literature) terrified you into thinking Silicon Valley had declared a war…
Brooding Babes and Ghoulish Guys: Singles Night at Morbid Anatomy
“Are you dying to show off your knowledge of death, diseases and afflictions?” Despite the invite, no one who attended Morbid Anatomy‘s Singles Night was completely ghastly. “I swear,…
Spend the Night With Ray From Girls
The last couple of times we saw actor and filmmaker Alex Karpovsky out and about (at the premieres for Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood and…
Broad City Goes From Web Series to TV Show to ‘Unique Experience’
Only one episode of Comedy Central’s Broad City has aired so far (the second airs 10:30 p.m. tonight), but the ratings must have been stupendous —…
Just What the Puck Is Going On at Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club?
After dropping into the soft-opening of Gowanus’s new shuffleboard bar this past weekend, we’ve stopped oo-ing and ah-ing long enough to talk to Jonathan Schnapp, who…
The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club Has Soft-Opened in Gowanus
Sure, there’s tabletop shuffleboard at The Diamond and Whiskey Brooklyn, but it used to be that if you wanted to play the old-fashioned stand-up variety,…
Watch Swaai Boys Turn Their Practice Space into an African Beach Hut
It’s Tropical Thursday here on Bedford + Bowery — now that we’ve introduced you to “castaway rock,” how bout some “turf rock”? Swaai Boys take…